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I had a brush with death in 2004 from alcohol and drug abuse. Serious enough to change my life. 2024 and I'm 20 years sober. When I quit drinking I had all this money burning a hole in my pocket. I Started buying Gibsons and Marshalls. One day I decided to mod my 1981 Cry Baby. Loved it. Soon after that I found BOYC. Joined this forum in 2006 and started building pedals. At the time I never heard anything like it! Shortly after that my pedal board was massive... All BYOC, (pretty much still to this day). I graduated from kits to just the PCB board and sourced my own parts. I tried a few different board vendors like Madbean (Another great site).

Close to 20 years later and decades of looking at schematics, one day I was able to follow the signal flow. I stared to breadboard effects from schematics. I sat down and you-tubed analog circuit design. I learned Kicad. I studied buffer circuits, gain stages. tone controls, transistor and opamp amplifier circuits, BBD design and so on. On the breadboard you can easily replace a component and hear the effects or see it on a scope. Thanks to the BYOC community for getting me hooked. With the use of Kicad, I now design my own circuits and effects based on these classic designs and getting my own PCBs manufactured.

Keep at it!
oh yea... all the software tools I use are free and open source.

Right on! Congrats on your sobriety. This is BYOC's 20th anniversary too.

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*patience is a virtue*

Please do not PM me. email is prefered. keith@buildyourownclone.com

Congrats on your sobriety and on all the cool shit you've made! BYOC put me on a journey too, but I haven't gone nearly as far as you have.

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Scott

My band, Austin Hollow

Thanks Keith. I have nothing but great things to say about BYOC. Congrats on bringing amazing tone to the community for the past 20 years.

Quite the inspirational story! Congrats on all that you've accomplished, esp. 20 years of sobriety!!

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“My favorite programming language is SOLDER” - Bob Pease (RIP)

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